Police believe an armed robbery on the 1600 block of Adams Street Wednesday morning is the latest in a string of armed robberies surrounding the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus area, according to Madison Police Department South District Capt. Joe Balles.
If you ask any athlete, competing for team USA is a huge honor, and it?s one a number of University of Wisconsin-Madison swimmers achieved last week.
University of Wisconsin and Madison Police fear the same men may be responsible for a series of recent armed robberies near the Vilas neighborhood.
For the most part, last year?s editorial board was pleased with the decision to appoint Rebecca Blank as our university?s next chancellor. While impressed by her financial and academic experiences in previous positions, the board urged Blank to embrace the opportunities being a Badger would present to her, such as getting to know a diverse student body and engaging with the unique governance structure on which our university prides itself. A few months and a few new members later, we find ourselves taking the same position.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Transportation Services will offer a shuttle bus to students who cannot physically make the trek up Bascom Hill, according to a UW-Madison news release.
State legislators participating in a student debt panel on campus Tuesday said despite holding statewide elected offices, they are still paying off the loans they took out to finance their college education.
On the same day that U.S. News & World Report announced college rankings, a different college list came out. CraftBeer.com announced 15 craft beer obsessed college football towns.
More than two dozen people were forced from their homes early Wednesday morning following a fire at a housing cooperative near the UW campus.
This summer, two student leaders discovered firsthand the intricacies of passing legislation when they pushed to pass bills in the state Assembly and Senate.
A UW-Madison Police officer was injured in a crash Saturday while on his way to escort the Tennessee Tech football team to Camp Randall Stadium.
It?s a valuable natural resource right in the middle of Madison ? the Lakeshore Nature Preserve on the UW-Madison campus. The area protects 300 acres of undeveloped land along Lake Mendota, including Picnic Point, Lakeshore Path and Muir Woods.
UW-Madison police arrested nearly twice as many people for underage drinking at Saturday?s football game than they did during the Badgers? opening game Aug. 31.
Two men entered a Vilas Avenue apartment Sunday night and robbed the three men inside, according to Madison police.
To Melissa McLimans, history is no joke.Then again, sometimes it is.
Three incidents that occurred in the campus area in the past week were brought to the attention of University of Wisconsin students in a ?timely warning? issued by officials Thursday afternoon.
UW police are warning students about excessive drinking after a high number incidents involving alcohol ? including some dangerous levels of intoxication and incapacitation ? in their first week back on campus.
Police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are renewing a program designed to track down bicycle thieves by planting “bait bikes” around campus.
A Madison construction company announced they would be building a new apartment complex along the waterfront of lake Mendota.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police are dealing with high levels of intoxication since the return of students to campus, according to a release.
Police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are renewing a program designed to track down bicycle thieves by planting “bait bikes” around campus.
Before the start of this school year, University of Wisconsin Veteran Services Coordinator Joe Rasmussen encouraged out-of-state veterans to look at other Big 10 schools because enrolling in Madison was too expensive.
The LGBT Campus Center, located on the first floor of the Red Gym, started its welcome week festivities Tuesday with an ice cream social and a visit by congressman and part-time ice cream scooper for the day, Mark Pocan, D-Wis., one of seven openly gay members of the U.S. Congress.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin is proposing a $225.3 million capital budget for 2014 that advances major initiatives and addresses some acute problems.
When dusk falls, Phalen Pierson, 53, puts down a couple of layers of cardboard with a thin foam pad in between and settles in to spend the night on the steps of Madison?s City-County Building.
?Every girl has a porn star/stripper fantasy? and ?Feminists are annoying, not attractive”?these are just two of the tweets sent out by the widely popular Confessions page, one of the most successful and controversial campus blogs these days, run by a student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
UW-Madison Police made 13 arrests, issued 13 citations and ejected 27 people Saturday at the Wisconsin Badgers? 45-0 blowout of UMass at Camp Randall Stadium.
Tuition and housing arent the only financial headaches facing this years crop of college students ? add textbooks, which nationally cost students hundreds of dollars a year on average and continue to rise in price faster than inflation.
College presents a lot of choices. Pick your classes. Pick your friends. Pick your name.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez sent an email to Badger football season ticket holders Saturday night, apologizing for issues with concessions.
One of the first classes many freshmen at universities around the country will take has nothing to do with their major. AlcoholEdu is a two-part online course used by more than 500 campuses seeks to educate students about alcohol.
I had to be on the UW-Madison campus today and it was all wonderful congestion. Cars and trucks were lined up to unload stuff into the dorms. Packs of new students and parents were being led around by perky upper classman in red shirts, pointing out where to go for pizza, books and school supplies. (No mention of bars that I could overhear.) It was hot and humid amid hazy sunshine just as it should be.
Calling herself a “fellow newbie,” UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank told thousands of freshman and transfer students at a convocation Friday to leave their comfort zone as they enter college by embracing the diversity of their classmates, taking classes that intrigue them even if they?re not required and asking for help when things get rough.
If youve been to a football game, you know theres no comparison to watching it live versus watching it at home. You have the noise, the excitement, and fans yelling at ref for a questionable call. It all adds to the overall experience. But up until now, there was one thing you could see on your couch, you couldnt see in person.
The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently earned an unusual honor ? having an ice cream named after her.
The city of Madison has proclaimed Friday to be John ?Vietnam? Nguyen Day, which marks the one-year anniversary of the death of the 19-year-old UW-Madison student and Chicago-raised hip-hop artist who drowned in Lake Mendota.
Humbling as it is to admit, when I was a college student here in the Neolithic era, I was provincial in my dining habits. I had a meal plan at the Memorial Union and on weekends basically lived on Rocky Rococo?s and frozen yogurt.
The Babcock Dairy Plant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has recently named an ice cream after the new chancellor.
This is generic advice for new assistant professors, which began as a conversation over lunch in the 1980s and has evolved over the years.
For over nine years, José Madera has been working with the Academic Advancement Program (AAP), a campus-wide academic support program deeply committed to the retention of all students and enrichment of their academic experience at UW-Madison.
A 21-year-old UW-Madison student was injured after his moped was struck by a car early Tuesday evening, police said.
Navigating streets around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus could take a bit more patience Wednesday and Thursday.
On Wednesday and Thursday more than 7,000 students will move into the dorms at UW-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student suffered significant injuries after being hit by a car while driving a moped Tuesday, officials said.
Musicians marching under Michael Leckrone usually need some hot air. The newest recruits will get plenty of it this week
Wednesday nights drowning was the first this year in Dane county, but the situation itself is something divers have dealt with many times in the past.
The man whose body was recovered from Lake Mendota Wednesday was identified Thursday as Richard “Grady” DeLaCruz, 20, of Wauwatosa, who had just transferred from Marquette University to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to officials.
Preliminary autopsy results showed that Richard de la Cruz, a 20-year-old UW-Madison student, died of an accidental drowning, according to Barry Irmen, director of operations for the medical examiner?s office.
Many local businesses sponsor a boat, and Madison Schools and Community Recreation (MSCR) and UW-Madison Hoofers generally dress up a craft to join the fun. Between 15 and 25 boats usually participate in the parade. … The UW-Madison Alumni Band performs aboard the anchor boat for a raucous musical finale to the procession.
The apartment dwellers are settling in, so now it?s time for the dorm dwellers to descend on Madison.
This summer I had the opportunity to teach an English class on the UW-Madison campus to a group of high school juniors in the PEOPLE Program. The purpose of the PEOPLE Program (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence) is to mentor and provide scholarships to students who belong to historically under-represented groups at the UW.
Divers in Dane County have recovered the body of a missing swimmer from Lake Mendota.
A business new to the Madison area is encouraging residents to cash in on Badgers football games by renting out their homes to visitors on home-game weekends, just as city officials are looking to regulate the practice.
There are a million stories in the capital city, and not one involving rats and moving day has a happy ending.
The UW School of Music will have a new leader as it begins the fall 2013 semester. Though she?s just stepping up to the helm, her face is familiar to students who study subjects ranging from viola to Victorian poetry.
A longtime campus tradition is ending. After Labor Day, no traditional breakfast will be served at the UW Memorial Union. No eggs, no toast, no hash browns, no pancakes, toast or bacon, at either Lakefront on Langdon or Der Rathskeller.
UW-Madison police chief Sue Riseling will follow with a keynote speech around the convocation?s theme, ?Promoting Excellence: A Safe Campus Community.? Also: The freshmen are coming! More than 7,400 UW-Madison students, many of them in their first year, will be moving into university residence halls starting Sunday, causing traffic reroutes and parking scarcity.
After moving back to Madison, Kristen Riter visited the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery ? new since the days she attended UW Madison ? and learned she could bring her children to an educational program there the next day.
A team of seven students from the University of Wisconsin?Madison performed best overall in the 2013 Chinese Speech Contest of U.S. Summer Programs in China
Police arrested a couple Wednesday in relation to various thefts on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and throughout Dane County, according to a UW-Madison Police Department statement.
Mid-August is the annual move-out and move-in time for students and others in downtown Madison as leases run out and new ones begin. With that comes the annual “hippie Christmas” where people put their unwanted items on the curb for others to rummage through before the sanitation department gets there.
